On May 3, 2005, at 5:33 PM, Vicki Brown wrote:
Is there some magic incantation I can provide Camino to cause it to download a .gz (gzip) file instead of thinking it's text to be displayed in the browser window?
No, Camino is doing the Right Thing, it's the webserver of the site you are visiting that is misconfigured.
More specifically, it's returning the wrong MIME-type (likely "text/plain") for the binary file which causes Camino to try to display it.
If you can, right click it and choose Download Link Target. Some sites, notably Sourceforge.net, unfortunately have silly redirects that prevents this.
This is all due to Internet Explorer being broken and doesn't respect the returned MIME-type, which causes many web servers to remain misconfigured (since it "works for everybody"). Please complain to the "webmaster" of that site.
However, since this is a common plague, I wish there was a safety catch in Camino that wouldn't try to display something that is absurdly big and/or contains nonprintable characters as text, since it almost causes Camino to hang. Anyone feel like adding such a feature? Pretty please with sugar on top?
/Roine
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